If this had been a fictional story, no-one would've believed it.
Covering the years 1980 to 2001, Hilary Swank plays the sister of a guy who is arrested (she believes wrongly) for the brutal murder of a neighbor.
Sam Rockwell is found guilty and gets a life sentence.
His sister spends the next 18 years earning her GED, then her bachelor's, a master's in education, and eventually a law degree.
She did all this while raising two boys alone and working as a waitress part-time. While in law school she began investigating her brother's case.
You know it's got to have a happy ending, but what a grueling time is spent getting there. What could have been an exciting, dramatic Erin Brockovich type of story, ends up being drier than a bag of flour.
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